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BBC prime lines up TOTP new year show
Entertainment channel BBC Prime will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Top of the Popswith a special New Year's Eve countdown hosted by former Spice Girl Mel C. Over the next two months, viewers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa will vote for their ...
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RDF international in New Zealand deals
RDF International has signed a series of deals with broadcasters in New Zealand. TVNZ has picked up RDF's BBC2 quiz show Nobody Likes a Smartassplus Hunting the Washington Sniper, Perfect Match USA and Lion TV's new documentary ...
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US producers option formats from Zeal
Zeal Television has scored a range of format deals with production houses in the US. The Gurin Company has optioned extreme reality contest SuperHuman, dating show House Dates and quiz show The Mind Game, which Zeal piloted with the BBC. Vin de Bona has picked up new gameshow The Cube ...
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Fremantle takes Britney special to US
Fremantle International Distribution has picked up the rights to a behind-the-scenes special on popstar Britney Spears. The 60-minute programme will feature the starlet recording her latest album and rehearsing with dancers. Fremantle has acquired Britney Spears: In the Zonefrom BMG Visual Media for international distribution. ...
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Electric Sky scores doc deals worldwide
Electric Sky has sold a trio of documentaries to broadcasters around the world, including an investigation into amateur footage of JFK's assassination. The 52-minute programme, Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film, has been licensed to the A&E History Channel, New ...
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BBC religion goes for mass appeal
BBC Religion is attempting to appeal to the masses with a new series that asks sports stars, politicians and celebrities such as Pamela Anderson how their faith affects their lives, writes Lisa Campbell.
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ITV commissions fly-on-the-wall docs
ITV controller of news and current affairs Steve Anderson has ordered two fly-on-the-wall documentary series for the spring, following taxi drivers in Manchester and police officers in cities around the UK, writes Paul Revoir.
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Blast! doc looks at notorious chancers
Blast! Films, the indie behind Channel 4's award-winning opera The Death of Klinghoffer, is making a series of documentaries for BBC2 tracking the lives of entrepreneurs living on the edge of the law, writes Michael Rosser.
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Maverick wins three from C4
Birmingham-based indie Maverick TV has won three commissions from Channel 4 for next year, including a property show, a programme on premature babies and a makeover series, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Eamonn Holmes to front ITV1 Xmas show
ITV1 has lined up GMTV front man Eamonn Holmes to present a three-week series of live shows in the run-up to Christmas. The Christmas Showwill feature music, entertainment, lifestyle advice and celebrity guests. Tess Daly will co-host the Carlton show which will air weekdays from ...
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Lion looks at the lives of Sex addicts
Lion Television is to explore the pitfalls of sex addiction in a documentary for Five and Discovery Health. Commissioned by Justine Kershaw and Alex Sutherland at Five and Mark Poertner at Discovery Health, Sex Maniawill feature addicts of all ages in a 50-minute programme. They ...
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Five follows Peter Duncan's family trek
Former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan will present a children's series for Five that will follow him and his family through mainland China. Chinese Breakaway has been commissioned by Five controller of children's programming Nick Wilson for the Christmas schedule. The 6 x 30-minute show will air weekdays at 10.30 ...
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CNN signs top journalists for shows
CNN International general manager Rena Golden has lined up two documentary reports from award-winning journalists for its winter schedule. On 6 and 7 December in a 60-minute CNN Our Planet report, global environmental correspondent Gary Strieker visits the island of Madagascar to make Frontline of ...
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Radio 2 rounds up celebs for christmas
BBC Radio 2 has commissioned Wise Buddah to develop three celebrity-fronted programmes for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, comedian Lenny Henry will present a 60-minute tribute to Barry White in Let the Music Play while Simon Mayo will host a two-hour show in which some of ...
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NewsCheeky BBC1 show brings back Monkey
Monkey, the knitted simian mascot of the ill-fated ITV Digital, is set to take on ITV stalwarts Ant and Dec by fronting his own star-studded family entertainment show on the BBC.
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ITV1 sends single women into bush
ITV1 is set to come to the aid of lonely farmers living in the Australian bush with a£1.2m dating show in which British women travel down under in search of potential husbands in the Outback.
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Living taps in to live psychic show
Living TV is bulking up its paranormal output with a daily live teatime psychic show in which mediums will work with celebrities to try and contact the dead.
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NewsHolmes fronts ITV1 live Xmas show
ITV1 has lined up GMTV front-man Eamonn Holmes to present a three week series of live shows in the run up to Christmas.
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Landrover on H&L
Discovery Home & Leisure channel director Paul Welling has commissioned independent producer i2i to produce a 15 x 30-minute show covering the restoration of an early series one Landrover, which was made between 1948 and 1958. A Landrover is Born, the seventh in Discovery Home & Leisure's ? ...
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BBC4 Soul specials
BBC4 controller Roly Keating has commissioned two documentaries to air during a special 'soul weekender' on the channel early next year. The working titled Urban Soul, to be made by Smoking Dogs Films, will tell the story of modern R&B and its rise in popularity. ...